Up-State Farm Notes 
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Tractor Demonstrations.— The State 
Department of Agriculture is arranging a 
series of tractor demonstrations for 1 <) 
counties. They are Onondaga. Madison, 
Oswego, Jefferson. Lewis, Oneida, Otsego, 
Herkimer. Montgomery and Schenectady. 
In connection with the tractor demonstra¬ 
tions will be an agricultural machinery 
exhibit. The first one will be held near 
Utica on the Roberts farm, and aeroplane 
flights will help to call a big crowd for 
the demonstrations on July 24 and 25. 
Cheese Quality Improves.— With the 
cooler weather and the better quality of 
cheese resulting, a rise in prices was ob¬ 
tained by the Watertown dairy board this 
week. The price obtained was 30% 
cents, as compared to 29% cents of the 
previous week. A total of 9,374 boxes 
was sold. 
Soil Survey Facts. —A new extension 
bulletin, No. 29, prepared by the State 
college and the Federal Department of 
Agriculture, shows Cortland County to 
have nine series of soils, with 17 distinct 
types, and to have 30 persons to the 
square mile. The average growing season 
is LS7 days, and the grazing season three 
or four weeks longer. The mean annual 
temperature is 44.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 
and the rainfall 40.86 inches. The rota¬ 
tion of crops most commonly practiced is 
on dairy farms, cabbage or potatoes one 
year, corn one year, followed by oats sown 
with Timothy or clover. This county is 
typical of Central New York. 
I.oss of Milk. —The shortage of ice 
and the new requirements for cooling 
milk have.caused the loss of thousands of 
cans of milk to farmers, who find after a 
long trip in the heat and the long wait to 
deliver at stations, that milk properly 
cooled, in some cases even iced, has 
warmed up above 60 degrees Farmers 
are taking extra precautions by cooling 
the milk as soon as possible after being 
drawn. 
Convict Work on Roads.—A per¬ 
manent camp for convict road workers 
has been built near Skaneateles Lake, 
where much work is to be done. Twenty- 
three men have been sent here for the 
Summer. Two more men have escaped 
from the Homer road camp. It would 
seem with the scarcity of farm help and 
the large amount of road building to be 
done that large numbers of prison work¬ 
ers should be sent out at once, so as to 
release local labor for local use on farms. 
Many farm teams and farmers themselves 
are now doing road work in order to 
secure its completion. m. g. f. 
Buffalo Markets 
The five almost rainless weeks follow¬ 
ing May 23. after a pouring Spring, show 
what the Western New York farmer has 
been up against this season. During the 
five weeks previous to that date there had 
been a rainfall of 5.11 inches, as against 
half an inch during the following five 
weeks, with temperature breaking the hot 
record day after day. Many garden 
crops, especially shallow-rooted ones, suf¬ 
fered. but field corn and beans are grow¬ 
ing arid the wheat and hay will be li.avy. 
Potatoes will be very late, as they could 
not be planted till June. Quotations are 
50c to $1 per bu. for old home-grown 
and $4 to $6.25 per bbl. for Southern. 
Apples are no longer quoted. Beans re¬ 
main dull but steady at $4.50 to $6.60 per 
bu.: onions firmer at $4 to $4.75 per 
Texas crate. 
Vegetables are active and steady, with 
asparagus $2 to $2.75 per 2 doz. bunches: 
beans. $3 to $4.50. cucumbers. $1.70 to 
$3.25. all per hamper; beets, 75c to $1, 
carrots, 75c to $1.25, pieplant, 35c to 60c. 
radish, 15c to 25c. parsley, 35c to -10c. 
celery. $1.25 to $1.75. all per doz. 
bunches; lettuce, $1.25 to $1.50 per box: 
green peas, home-grown, $2 to $2.50 per 
bag: tomatoes, $1.50 to $3 per crate for 
Southern; cabbage, $2.50 to $3.50 per 
100 lbs.; spinach. 50c to 75c per bu.; 
rhubarb. 30c to 40c per doz. bunches. 
Strawberries fluctuate widely at 18c to 
30c per qt; cherries scarce at 65c to 
$1.25 per 7-lb. basket; poaches. $3 to $4 
per Georgia carrier; pineapples active. 
$6 to $7.25 per crate; bananas. $3.75 to 
$7 per bunch; oranges, $6 to $6.75. lem¬ 
ons, $7 to $9, grapefruit. $5.50 to $S. all 
per box; limes, $1 to $1.25 per 100; can- 
teloupes, $1.75 to $3.50 per crate; water¬ 
melons, 40c to 90c each; California 
plums, $3 per box. 
Butter is steady but not so high as 
formerly, at 52c to 56c for creamery, 45c 
to 50c for dairy, 43c to 49c for crocks. 
39c to 40c for common. 2Sc to 37c for 
oleomargarine. Cheese is in fair demand 
at 32c to 33c for daisies and longhorns. 
32c for bricks air' flats. 45c to 50c for 
Swiss. Eggs strong on light receipts. 50c 
to 56c for hennery, 4Sc to 49c for State, 
candled, 45c to 46c for Western. 
Poultry is active and steady. Live tur¬ 
keys, 44c to 45c; dressed fowl, 34c to 
37c ' dressed broilers, 50c to 53c; live old 
roosters. 21c to 22c; live ducks, 30c to 
35 c; live geese, 20c to 22c, dressed being 
2c to 3c more than live per lb. Maple 
products dull at $1.50 to $2 for syrun 
per cal: 17c tc, 24c for sugar; honey, 33c 
per lb. for extract. J. w. C. 
We expected to have n very early seed¬ 
ing season as much of the plowing was 
done very early, but wet weather set in 
during the first part of May and prac¬ 
tically all of May was wet. which retard¬ 
ed planting of crops greatly. «1 cannot 
ever remember seeing some crops go in 
quite so late, especially oats. Many .oats 
were sown the very last Of May and quite 
a few the first of June. Corn was largely 
put in the first of June. Potatoes have 
all been planted in June except a few 
early patches. Many have planted as late 
as June 20 to 25. After the wet weather 
in May, June came with just the oppo¬ 
site—very hot und dry, practically no 
rain during June except a couple of local 
showers. The thermometer stood around 
90 to 95 day after day) and this hot 
weather made the corn jump, even if it 
was without rain. There will be plenty 
of knee corn July 4. June 25 and 26 we 
had a very hard rain, doing great good. 
It was the first in weeks. Hay will be 
only a fair crop. Oats will be late and 
it will be -hard to guess what results they 
will give. A number of farmers did not 
sow oats at all it got so late. Wheat is 
undoubtedly the biggest crop that we 
have had in years; in fact, I never 
remember seeing so many good fields 
of wheat. Prices are good for almost 
every thing, except horses. Cows sell 
at $75 to $100 for grades. Six-weeks- 
old pigs are $12 to $15 per pair. 
Veals, 15e per lb.; old chickens selling at 
35c per lb. Butter, 40 to 50c per lb.; 
eggs, same, per doz. Not as much butter 
made as formerly, as many farmers are 
selling to cream routes. Pastures have 
been hard hit with the dry weather, but 
the present rains may revive them. Po¬ 
tatoes are pretty well sold off and are 
worth $1.25 to $1.50 at the farm. Straw¬ 
berries were a fairly good crop, but were 
out of sight in price. First pickings sold 
for $7 to $8 per bu. Blackberries and 
raspberries promise to be a good crop. 
Apples quite scarce, and from what we 
can see peaches, pears, plurns and other 
such fruits will be only a light crop. Not 
much buckwheat going in. Much hay has 
been baled and is selling at $33 per ton. 
This county voted to bond the county for 
$150,000,000 for permanent highways 
on June 17. When work will be started 
is not known. J. 
Mercer Co., Northwest, Pa. 
This is exclusively a milk-producing 
section. All farms are stocked for all 
they can carry. The Winters are long 
and very cold, therefore requiring a large 
amount of rough fodder. Hay and corn 
are our chief crops, although a quantity 
of oats are raised. Some wheat, buck¬ 
wheat and barley are also raised, but all 
high protein feeds are purchased from 
our local feed dealei*. Farmers are re¬ 
ceiving 90c for oats. $2 for barley, $3 for 
buckwheat and $1 for potatoes, per bu., 
all rather scarce. Good grade cows, just 
freshened or about to freshen, $200. We 
are receiving Dairymen's League prices 
for milk; July, $2.88 for 3 percent milk. 
As to farm conditions, I believe they are 
about as discouraging as possible. We 
have had so much rain that everything is 
nearly a month behind. Some farmers 
have not planted any corn yet, some are 
not done sowing grain; others planted 
corn as soon as they could get on the 
land to work, and are not going to sow 
any grain. It is just clearing up today 
after two nights and a day of the heaviest 
rain I ever saw. There are acres and 
acres of grain under water today which 
will all turn yellow and not amount to 
anything. Such are conditions here, but 
we have not lost heart entirely, and will 
get by somehow or other. W. J. M. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
HAKE A DOLLAR \N HOUR. SELL MEXDETS 
a patent patch for Instantly mending leaks 
in nil utensils. Sample package-free. 
COLLETTE MEG. CO., 1<)S. Amsterdam, X, V. 
Agents 
P A O A/f C Wo ean seL any farm that is 
XV AViL ^ priced right. Submit full details. 
E.E. SLOCUM",1 41 Broadway,NewYorkCity 
I Have Bargains in Hunterdon Co., N. /. 
T'niry, Fruit find Foultry farm*, 6 to 2C3 acres. Send f r 
list. Square deal. E. E* HAWK, LambertviJ.le, IT. J. 
00 YOU 
NEED 
FARM 
HELP? 
Wo have many able-bodied 
youmr men, with and with of.; 
experience, who wish to work on 
farms. If you need a good, steady, 
sober man, write for an cr^cr 
blank. Ours is a philanthropic 
organization and wo make no 
charge to employer or employee. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
176 Second Arenue N. Y. Ciiy 
Subscribers’Exchange 
If you want to-buy or sell or'exchange, make it known here. 
Thin Kate will be 6 Cents a word, payable in advance. The 
name anti address must bo counted as part of the advertise-, 
ment. No display type used, and only Farm Products, Help 
and Positions Wanted admitted. For subscribers only. 
Dealers. jobbers and Renernl manufacturers’ announcements 
not admitted hc/e.. Poultry, Eggs and other live stock adver¬ 
tisements will «o under proper headings on other patres. 
Seed and Nursery advertisements will not be accepted for 
this’column. 
Copy must reach us not later than Friday morning 
to appear in the following week’s issue. 
, Farm Help Wanted 
WANTED—Shepherd; thoroughly experienced 1 
nud capable shepherd to l take full charge of 
300 registered sheep; excellent place for right 
man: write details ns to experience, reference, 
salary, etc. O. G. BURLINGAME, ,130 Nassau 
Street, NewTork City. 
WANTED—Men and. women attendants in a 
State institution for* the feeble-minded: sal¬ 
ary $50 a month for men and $35 for women, 
with maintenance: state age when applying. 
Apply to SUPERINTENDENT^ Letchworth Vil¬ 
lage, Tliiells, N. .Y. . 
WANTED—Men in dairy plant and on farms. 
Farm hand's, $2.00 per day with board and 
room; barn men, $55.00 per month with board 
and room; milkers, $00.00 per mouth with board 
and room. COLUMBIA MILK FARMS, Julius- 
town, N. J. 
FEMALE nurses iii sanitarium in country for 
nervous and mental diseases; wages $30 per 
month and maintenance; apply by letter. State 
experience and age, to DI!. GESREGEN, Box 4, 
Belle Mead, N. J. 
WANTED—Co.d reliable woman to do plain 
cooking; wages $35 per month; no objection 
to daughter of school ago; every convenience. 
BOX 110, Ossining, N. -Y. 
WANTED—Experienced herdsman, to take charge 
of dairy of thirty bead; single man pre¬ 
ferred; references required; state salary ex¬ 
pected.' ADVERTISER 5657, care Rural New- 
Yorker. 
FARM help wanted; married man; permanent 
position for right man; cottage and per¬ 
quisites; general farming; salary regulated by 
proven eflieieney; offer open until right man 
secures it. Address ADVERTISER 5058, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FEMALE help wanted—White, middle-aged gen¬ 
eral houseworker; family three adults; modern 
country home; references. MRS. K. R. OWEN, 
Port Washington, L. I.,- N. Y. 
WANTED—At once, a man for general dairy 
farm; must be trusty; married preferred; 
give full particulars and wages. ARTHUR S. 
REED, Bu-rlington Flats, N. Y. 
WANTED—At once, two single men as team¬ 
sters on up-to-date farm: must be able to do 
any farm work; give full qualifications and 
wages expected in first letter. AdcTress 
ADVERTISER 5663, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—A young or elderly man on poultry 
farm; experience unnecessary. MISS MARY 
HORNOR, Chesterfield, N. J. 
Situations Wanted 
1ST LIEUT. ENGRS.. IT. S. Army, to be dis¬ 
charged shortly, desires to get into communi¬ 
cation with anyone needing services of man with 
agricultural experience and some engineering 
training; have had wide experience in develop¬ 
ment and operation of agricultural lands; at 
present in charge of agricultural work at Gov¬ 
ernment Reconstruction Station; will go any¬ 
where; age, 35; married: no children; interested 
only in first-class proposition, but willing to ac¬ 
cept small salary and share in profits. Address 
THOMAS L. FULL, 1st Lieut. Engrs., U. S. A., 
Educational Service, Whipple Barracks, Ariz. 
rOULTRYMAN, married 1 , age 29, have one boy, 
wants position after Oct. 1st; ain now oper¬ 
ating plant on good paying basis; understand the 
Newtown and Cnndee incubators, as well as 
small oil machines; also the hot water and coal 
stoves brooding systems; am good dry picker 
and willing worker; good habits; prefer warm 
climate; willing to furnish copy of first six 
months’ report at present place. ADVERTISER 
5648, care Rural New-Yorker. 
W VNTED—Position as manager on small estate 
keeping registered cattle; experienced in A. 
R. work, testing milk, etc., making butter, 
poultry raising and general farming; short 
c-nirse training; single. BOX 42, Interlaken, 
Mass. 
CnAUFFEUR-MECHANIC, single, age 27, 
Stewart School graduate, good habits, neat 
appearance, steadv worker, desires position with 
private family; city or country: also understand 
care of potiltrv and fruit; can furnish reference. 
Address CHARLES B. HAEUSSLER, Lincoln 
Avenue, Metuchen, N. J. 
POSITION wanted as genera! farm assistant 
with American farmer; faithful, intelligent 
worker: executive ability and 1 would help with 
the accounts; state wages paid with board. 
ADVERTISER 5654, care Rural New-Yorker. 
WANTED—A position as working farm mana¬ 
ger: American: married; 9 years’ experience; 
familiar with all kinds of farm machinery, 
crops and stock; have had charge of cows doing 
A. R. O. work: can test milk and a good hut- 
tor-maker; best of references. ADVERTISER 
5062, care Rural New-Yorker. 
MAN, married, good character, reliable, no 
cigarettes; willing to do anything needed; be 
as interested as if farm belonged to him: in 
whom employer ean feel interested; small dairy 
and general farming; Chester Co., Ta.: owner 
getting old. ADVERTISER 5660, care Rural 
New-Yorker. 
GARDENER, married, no children, age 37: un¬ 
derstand stock of gentleman’s place; L. I. 
preferred. NELSON W. ATKIN. Quogue, L. L., 
N. Y. 
FARM MANAGER—Position as manager of 
large stock farm or country place where ex¬ 
tensive alterations are contemplated; SoutJ pre¬ 
ferred; have had a training and experience that 
covers nearly all kinds of work found in modern 
farming; married, small family; my present 
position is one of war time emergency, hut 
would like something now that I could’ regard 
as permanent as long as satisfactory results 
wore shown; will be pleased to give any par¬ 
ticulars desired and furnish references as to 
character, experience and ability. ADVER¬ 
TISER 5659, care Rural New-Yorker. 
Farms For Sale, to Rent, etc. 
FOR SALE—Poultry farm; about 15 acres; 
equipped for capacity of 4.000 hens; 6,000-egg 
Candcc incubator, brooder bouses, laying houses, 
etc.; large, splendidly built residence; mile 
from town of 3,500; located on site of Du Pont 
Boulevard; six miles from Delaware Bay and 20 
miles from Delaware Breakwater on Atlantic 
Ocean; set in apple trees; a biff bargain. THE 
DELAWARE EGG FARM, Milford, Del. 
FOR SALE—Silver Creek Farm; 3S4 acres; fruit 
and .dairy, three dwellings, nine barn build¬ 
ings. seven orchards; fertile soil; Alfalfa. For 
price and particulars inquire of owner, WAL¬ 
TER E. WARD, 78 Chapel Street, Albany, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Truck gardening farm, located in 
Mohitwk Valley, on State highway, near Am¬ 
sterdam, on Now York Central lines; business 
established 25 years; 75 hotbed sash; 36 acres 
land: l'j acres asparagus; modern 12-room house; 
running water, bath, garage, barn, concrete hen¬ 
house. I'OSTOFFICE BOX No. 74, Fonda, N. Y. 
DAIRY FARM for sale; 120 acres in Chautauqua 
County, near Mayville, N. Y.; with or without 
stock and tools; reasonable terms. Apply to E. 
M. STEBBINS, Mayville, N. Y., R. D. No. 27. 
260-ACRE river farm, located on macadam road, 
borders river; 60 head stock, four horses, farm 
tools, crops; bargain. ADVERTISER 5655, care 
Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—Fine 220-acre farm, on the State 
road in Kent County, Maryland; fine location 
and everything is right; price $25,000, on terms. 
W. S. HOOVER, Owner, Chestertown, Md. 
FOR SALE—Gentleman’s fruit farm, in the 
heart of Eastern America’s most productive 
fruit belt, eight miles from Rochester, N. Y. 
(the nursery, also the convention city of Amer¬ 
ica); the main house has all city conveniences 
and is situated in a beautiful village on the 
trolley, N. Y. C. R R., barge canal, and maca¬ 
dam roads in all directions; bearing fruit con¬ 
sists of 20 acres of apples, 12 acres peaches, five 
acres pears, one acre cherries, four acres rasp¬ 
berries, y 2 acre prunes; three acres of lawn and 
shade trees around house and 1 10 acres of general 
farm land, with creek and modem poultry house, 
etc.; would make ideal sanatorium. GEORGE 
A. PEATE, Spencerport, N. Y. 
FARM. Southern Connecticut; 60 acres, 40 till¬ 
able; crops in; good buildings; bargain if sold 
soon. ADVERTISER 5656, care Ruarl New- 
Yorker. 
FOR SALE—104 acres, near Langhorne, Pa.. 25 
miles from Philadelphia, 8 from Trenton, 5 
from Bristol; 1,500 peach and apple trees, six 
years old; eight-room stone and frame house, 
bath, hot and cold water, toilet, sewer system; 
three room tenant house, large barn, poultry 
house, hog house, etc.; everything in good con¬ 
dition; crops all planted; all farm work up-to- 
date; price $10,500; terms, $8,000 cash, balance 
mortgage. W. E. RANSOM, 200 Fifth Avenue, 
New York. 
FOR SALE—40 acres, 15 under plow, balance in 
bnsh am? pasture; house, stable, granary, hen¬ 
nery; sand and clay loam; all fenced; seven 
hundred dollars, with crop. CHARLES H. SAN¬ 
FORD, Route No. 2, Alpena, Mich. 
50-ACRE farm for sale; stocked; 60 sheep, 8 
cows, team, tools, nice buildings, good or¬ 
chard: three miles to town; high school. Write 
GEORGE MINER, Williamstown, N. Y. 
BEAUTIFUL homo and farm for sale; 73 acres; 
43 in high state of cultivation; 30 in fine 
timber; strawberries net $1,000 per acre; five 
acres of sweet potatoes planted now, give 1,500 
baskets; potato house holds 2,000 baskets; good 
barn and plenty of outbuildings; well at barn; 
8-room beautiful house: lots of fruit; on the 
main State macadam road from Baltimore and 
Philadelphia to Ocean City, Md.; all well 
drained; truck, hay, grain, 28,000 cabbage; 
shipping now; fine neighborhood; six minutes to 
railroad depot; steamboat landing in sight; 100 
yards to school; mile to village; mail delivered 
to door; also meats and groceries: finest mar¬ 
kets in U. S. for all products; within night’s 
ride of New York; $6,000, part cash. Address 
BOX 17, Sharptown, Md. 
FINE farm in Central New York, on State 
highway; one hundred and forty-five acres; 
twelve woodland; only sixty dollars per 
acre; buildings cost more than price asked. 
KESTER FARMS, Marietta, N. Y. 
FARM for sale cheap: 155 acres; 10 miles to 
railroad: good buildings; 8-room boose, with 
piazza; plenty of fruit; good woodlot and saw 
timber, pine and oak. For information address 
C. VAN AUKEN, West Fulton, X. Y. 
Miscellaneous 
-.---i 
WANTED—Oliver two-bottom 12-inch tractor 
plow (must be reasonable). OTTO SCHWIEN, 
Townshend, Md. 
FOR SALE—4.000-egg Mammoth incubator, or 
will exchange for pullets. Applv HAMILTON 
FARM, Huntington, N. Y. 
500 NEW Georgia peach carriers, nailed to¬ 
gether, complete with tills and partitions; 
price 17c. DELICIOUS ORCHARDS, Eaton- 
town, N. J. 
4-II.P. KEROSENE ENGINE, built-in magneto. 
water-cooled: used slightly for demonstration; 
$140. ORVILLE MENZIES, Weedsport, N. Y. 
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FOR SALE—-Strictly fresh white a- 1 brown 
eggs, in 30 dozen case lots. TENDLETON’S 
WIliTE LEGHORN POULTRY FARM, Nor¬ 
wich, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Three new Cleveland tractors; 
taken for debt; cost $1,5S5; will sell for 
$1,325; f. o. b. Chatham, N. Y. G. S. 
MAWHTNXEY, 215 Fourth Ave., New York 
City, N. Y. 
IRON AGE potato digger, No. 155; good as new; 
$100; f. o. b. Patterson, New York. ADVER¬ 
TISER 5661, care Rural New-Yorker. 
FOR SALE—New three-quarter ton Republic 
automobile truck, with extra rim and tire: 
hasn’t been driven 200 miles; will sell owing 
to bad health for $900; cost $1,250. ,T. H. 
SMIRT.ES, Box 7, West Brookville, Sullivan 
Co., N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Van Brunt grain drill, with fe-- 
tilizer and seeding attachment; nearly nev: 
$100; two cultivators, new, $6 each. F. C. 
ROBINSON, Hinsdale, Mass. 
| RABBITS j 
BELGIAN HARES 
Rufus ^teds, three dollars each; Pairs, five dol¬ 
lars; Trio, six dollars. Address 
Ralph Smith, - Shawviile, Pa. 
Raise Rabbits and Guinea Pigs 
IVe can otter choice young and old Belgian Hares. New 
Zealand Reds. Flemish Giants and Guinea pigs. Both peer- 
greed and utility. Stamp for prices. N. SPOOR, Ra«eni.N.r. 
The Delaware Valley Rabbit Farm 
Breeders of Rufus Reds and New Zealand Rab¬ 
bits of the winning type. From Pedigreed, Regis¬ 
tered and Prize-Winning Parents. All ages for 
sale now, from Youngsters to Registered class. 
Also, some good Hutches in A-l condition, cor¬ 
rect thing for outside Rabbit Raising; write today. 
Address THEO. S. MOORE STOCKTON, N. J. 
R ReS 5 Belgians, Flemish Giants, English and Dutch Hares f lS;'' 
You can buy your Foundation for a tritle more than Common Stock from 
First Prize Winners of this Country and England 
Boston, Jan. 1919, Three. Muneie. Ind., Feb. 1919, Two. Grand Rapids. Mien., Apr. 1919, Nine Prize Winners 
The offspring of this quality is more likely to produce quality than the offspring of poor stock. . 
I Guarantee Satisfaction and Safe Delivery, anywhere in America, or Money Refunded. 
JOSEPH BLANK Dept. A, 428 Highland Ave. MT. VERNON, NEW YORK 
